As someone in need of a new phone in a month or so, I'm so glad they did this. I don't find much difference between screen qualities and I'd rather they stuck with lower resolution that uses less battery power.
Heck, I have both a Surface Pro 4 and a Galaxy Tab A. The latter has a much worse screen than the SP4 but it's not a hardship for me to bounce back and forth between the two. In comparison, the differences between modern phone screens is infinitesimal to me. I know others don't agree, but I just want to note that there are those of us out there who don't need state of the art everything.
But I value the fast response time, alert button, a decent camera with good manual controls, large storage, no bloat OS, and low price.